Carrie Prejean is Miss California. She didn’t win the Miss USA pageant last night, but she created such a controversy over her answer to a question on gay marriage that she’s all anyone is talking about today. It all started when celebrity gossip blogger Perez Hilton asked her a controversial question during the competition. It went downhill from there. Read about it below, see lots of pictures of Ms. Prejean and a video of her run in with Perez.
Carrie Prejean, Miss California
The last thing anyone expects at a Miss USA pageant is controversy. The most you might hope for is that someone will have a wardrobe malfunction or something of the sort. These beauty pageants are for beautiful women to strut around in swimsuits with high heels and lipstick on. That’s what they are for.
Usually, the ‘tough’ questions have to do with asking a contestants what she’ll do about world hunger should she win the contest. The expected answer is that she’ll spend her year traveling the world doing good as a proud and beautiful representative of the United States. We then promptly forget them and they do whatever it is they do after they win, wearing a tiara and perfect manicure at all times.
Then someone thought it was a good idea to put the controversial and gay celebrity blogger Perez Hilton on the judges panel. He, not surprisingly, decided to ask one of ‘those’ questions that aren’t supposed to be asked of beautiful women on stage with high heels, lipstick, perfect coifs and bodies to die for. Here’s the exchange between Carrie Prejean, Miss California and the judge, Perez Hilton.
PEREZ: Vermont recently became the fourth state to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you think every state should follow suit? Why or why not?
CARRIE: I think it’s great that Americans are able to choose one or the other. We live in a land that you can choose same-sex marriage or opposite marriage and, you know what, in my country and my family I think that I believe that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. No offense to anyone out there but that’s how I was raised and that’s how I think it should be between a man and a woman.
She clearly came down on the side of “opposite marriage,” basically saying “no offense but your lifestyle isn’t valid.” I’m guessing Perez didn’t give her his vote, but Carrie still managed to finish as first runner up in the pageant.
I actually thought she did well, considering it was a beauty pageant and not a presidential debate. I mean, what was she supposed to say? Well … Perez didn’t like her answer AT ALL. In fact, today on his blog, in a video blog, he called her a ‘dumb bitch’.
Apparently, the pageant people were not happy with him injecting serious, controversial issues into the pageant either. There was some nastiness backstage between Hilton and the pageant organizers. Leftist bloggers are gunning for Miss California. People who otherwise didn’t even know there was a beauty pageant last night are acting as though this 21-year-old blond California beauty is the final authority on gay rights in the United States.
A couple of things happened in the whole Miss California gay marriage controversy. The Miss USA pageant has gotten at least three times the publicity it usually gets. Perez Hilton’s blog has probably gotten at least twice his usual traffic. Everybody is talking about Carrie Prejean, even though she came in first runner up and didn’t win. And hardly anyone knows who actually did win.
So who won Miss USA last night? Miss North Carolina, Kristen Dalton was named Miss USA 2009.
There you have it.
Carrie Prejean, Miss California - Photos
Carrie Prejean -Video
Miss California USA vs Perez Hilton
April 20th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
Way to go Carrie, great answer!
April 20th, 2009 at 11:01 pm
It’s one thing to subtract points for a contestant not answering a question “well.” It’s another thing to disagree with her answer and then trash her on a high-profile blog the next morning.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:05 am
What’s REALLY ridiculous is that bigotry is STILL alive and well in this nation of ours. Carrie Prejean is just the latest in a long line of bigots who would deny people their basic civil rights simply because they dislike someone’s idea of sexuality.
All unions should become Civil Unions; if individual Churches want to hold “marriage” ceremonies, that’s their right.
When is America going to ignore the religious zealots and do what is right for ALL people?
Memo to the God Squad: You don’t have the first idea what Jesus actually taught, or you wouldn’t be acting the way you are.
April 21st, 2009 at 2:54 am
Homosexuality is the road to extinction for any species. Homosexuals live off heterosexuals; they have to for survival as a group like parasites. The gay community has to convert more heterosexuals to find a partner. They will adopt same sex children. Don’t take my word, look around, do the research. It is covert genocide when authorities start approving same sex marriage.
April 21st, 2009 at 3:33 pm
There you have it folks. Miss USA will always be chosen on political and religious viewpoints. Forget the talent and beauty portion of the show. I applaud Carrie Prejean for standing firm to her opinion no matter what the cost. It is no longer popular being a Christian in America. This country has largely lost its moral compass. To Carrie Prejean, I say thank you and God bless you. I found your courage inspirational. America needs more people like you. It’s Perez Hilton who made a fool of himself going on an emotional tirade on the Internet and slandering her name until he was blue in the face.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:41 am
I agrees with Danny, and secondly it not ethical to hilton to ask that a personal question like that because she it not running for the president seat. I very happy that she answer it that way, because it show that she a have firm foundation so that she did not sway with what is popular out there now a day. because I still remember a poster in school said that “what is right is not always popular and what is popular is not always right” so great job miss Cal. and hilton please shut up it just show you are more intolerance of other people that doen’t support you. If you live in Asia countries you probably have a sex transplant than go around gay because they will kill you because they consider that as a illness for the society.
April 22nd, 2009 at 1:46 am
Thanks Miss Cali for speaking for the rest of us that aren’t crazy in California! If only our leaders would have as much backbone as you, we wouldn’t be in the messes we’re in today!
April 22nd, 2009 at 4:20 am
Who really cares what this prancing little phaggot has to say about anything.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:15 pm
What a shame when society can support an idiot like Perez Hilton and his feeble attempt in attacking Carrie Prejean’s personal beliefs that disagree with the beliefs of individual’s living immoral lifestyles. I vote we elect Perez Hilton as our country idiot.
This country needs more individual’s like Carrie Prejean who are not affraid to voice their opinion.
April 22nd, 2009 at 10:21 pm
I think that little sissy Perez Hilton was jealous because heshe wasn’t standing on stage in a two piece bathing suit.
Perez resembles a plastic doll that is half guy and half girl…the g i don’t know doll.